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Not your average coat rack …
The Symbol Coat Rack is half art installation and half functional coat rack. According to the DESU Design website, … During the coatless summer months the Symbol hangs as a purely aesthetic piece, as the hooks lay flat and belie their function. When needed, the hooks pull smoothly out to help you organize your stuff. … Continue reading
Iconic Hats Roundup
Okay, I have done several hat histories recently and here is a short round-up of them … The Top Hat Cowboy Hats Pith Helmets The Flat Cap The Bowler (aka, The Derby) The Panama Hat At least for the time, I am not going to write any more of these posts … there are a … Continue reading
Iconic Hats 6 | The Panama Hat
Okay, we are not talking any old straw hat here, we are talking about traditional panama hats made from toquilla straw. With a history dating back to at least 4000 BC (and the modern form taking form after the appearance of Spanish conquistadors in Ecuador), these hat have a long and glorious history. The prehispanic … Continue reading
A Real Bowler … The Coke from Lock & Co.
As mentioned, in 1850, Lock & Co designed the Bowler Hat, which they call The Coke because it was made for William Coke, a progressive farmer from Holkham in Norfolk. This is a real bowler hat! Lock & Co was first founded before 1676 and has been called the “best hatters in the world”. Originally … Continue reading
Color Chart from “Correct Apparel for Gentlemen” (1931)
This chart is from an interesting little booklet printed for ‘Society Brand Clothes’ in 1931 that was evidently distributed at men’s clothing stores as a kinda style guide. Here is a slightly updated version of the chart that was featured in the book. I hope that someone finds it useful … Color Chart: Key: Hm … Continue reading
Iconic Hats 5 | The Bowler (aka, The Derby)
In A Clockwork Orange, a bowler was the hat of choice for the main character, Alex de Large and brought the bowler back to the attention of 1970s Glam Rock. Today, bowlers, like top hats, are rarely seen but that does not mean that they should be forgotten! The bowler was originally made for Sir … Continue reading
Iconic Hats 4 | The Flat Cap
Whether you call them flat caps or cloth cap or driving cap or golf cap or newsboy/newsy cap or …, this style of hat is one of my favorites. Made famous during the 19th century by working men throughout the British Isles, today they are worn by a wide range of characters – OAPs in … Continue reading
Iconic Hats 3 | Pith Helmets
Pith helmets traditionally denote white Europeans chopping and slashing their way through the tropics and as a sign of imperial power starting in the late 19th century. Using a technology developed by the French towards the end of the 19th century in Vietnam (then known as French Indochina), real pith helmets are made from the … Continue reading
A Century of Hats (by Woolley, 1923)
A Century of Hats and the Hats of the Century (click here for full-text PDF) by Edward Mott Woolley is a funny little volume published in 1923 by The Mallory Hat Company of Danbury, Connecticut. With only 40-some pages of text, it is an interesting company history of Mallory hats from its foundation by Ezra … Continue reading
Why men should wear hats …
According to milliner John Kasriel – “It’s sun protection for some older guys too, but mostly it’s, ‘I want to attract the women. I want to look fantastic. I’ve got confidence. I want to wear a hat’.” And buyer Craig Cochrane at 98-year-old Melbourne retail institution City Hatters – Cochrane says the thrill for first-time … Continue reading
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